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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Looks like the IDF still has more work to do.
46% of NY Jews voted for Trump, but only 21% of U.S. Jews did so in the rest of the country.
By Max Gelber
Trump's campaign on Friday arrived in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Arab-majority city in the US.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. vice president said at a Michigan campaign event that it's been a hard year "given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"He will let nothing stop him or get in his way to fight for the American people and to make America great again," the campaign said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 2024 Republican nominee for the White House will reportedly schmooze and nosh at Gottlieb's kosher restaurant.
The High Court unanimously ruled on Sunday that Levin must convene the Judicial Selection Committee, which he chairs, to elect a new Court President, akin to a chief justice.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still leads with 46% of public support, per the survey.
Nasrina Bargzie co-wrote in a 2015 article that civil rights complaints have led to “a chilling effect on university campuses discouraging robust discussion about Israel, Palestine and U.S. policy.”
By David Isaac
"Pushing off the election would have disenfranchised so many Jews around the world that want to connect to Israel and be part of this election."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
That the two were on the same docket shows that the Trump campaign is “appealing to an antisemitic, anti-democratic and extremist forces,” said the Democratic Majority for Israel.
By Alan Zeitlin
Let’s elect a president who recognizes that although Harvard and the Ivy Leagues have long abandoned the United States of America, the Jewish people never will, because Jewish values are American values and American values are Jewish values, he said in his speech.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, is among the politicians who are seen as a potential vice president pick for the Democrat ticket.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Riyadh is also waiting for a ceasefire in Gaza before potentially signing on to the Abraham Accords.
The Chief Rabbinate has jurisdiction over issues of personal status, such as marriage, divorce and conversions, as well as burials, kosher certification, holy sites, and rabbinical courts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz seeks to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lily Greenberg Call said the president “is making Jews the face of the American war machine.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel,” said the official.
Netanyahu pointed out that US citizens overwhelmingly support Israel over Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If we can call elections by the end of March, there is still time to hold elections in June, which is critical," said Barak - in order to create a "Palestinian" state.
“This poll tells us very little about how N.Y. Jews will vote,” said Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel.
The P.A. is "prepared to hold general elections, and if Hamas wins, the president will hand over the Authority."
Municipal candidate Sundus El-Khot has been threatened by the Palestinian Authority and influential clerics in eastern Jerusalem.
“He clearly sought our input in order to best serve us, along with all Americans, in a future administration,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, who was a part of the meeting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I’m not going to toss someone to the wolves and cancel them,” the presidential candidate said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ramaswamy also wants to go further than Trump with the Abraham Accords 2.0.
The lack of an invitation to the Oval Office for the Israeli prime minister reflects the “bankruptcy" of the administration’s Israel policy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., told JNS.
Candidate Walid Abu Tiya wants to force Israel out of Judea and Samaria and establish a "Palestinian State".
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback,” the Republican Florida governor said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Florida governor signed a bill to help his state combat antisemitism and vowed to keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
By JoeSettler
It's interesting that American activists oppose the judicial selection process they have in the US... when it comes to Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I will NOT resign!” tweeted the newly elected Republican congressman in response.
The media discourse in the Arab world reflects a lack of understanding of the rules of the game in Israel and a longing for a reality that is not there.
The Religious Zionists party will be responsible for civilian life in Judea and Samaria.
It has been my prediction all along that Netanyahu will turn the Knesset upside down just to leave Ben-Gvir out of the coalition.
By Ariel Kahana
Disagreements over the post of defense minister has lead to an impasse in coalition negotiations, with Netanyahu attempting to assuage concerns over the matter, asking his supporters for “a little patience.”
No candidate obtained the necessary two-thirds majority.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
After blatantly interfering in Israel's election campaign, despite priding itself as being the greatest democracy in the world, the American administration has found it difficult to internalize and accept the democratic choice of the people of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Meanwhile, a poll by J Street found that Republicans received 25% of the Jewish vote. The RJC tweeted that the poll released by Fox News is the “gold standard” because it is a network exit poll and “more reflective of the national Jewish vote.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Known as strong supporters of pro-Israel issues, Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Susan Wild edged out their Republican challengers.
There were 47 blank ballots in today's vote.
Muchtar’s mentioning of her parent's apartment brought it to the attention of the tax authorities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
ChallengerJen Kiggans also promised to fight anti-Semitism, work to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and oppose BDS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli president will meet with party delegations to receive their recommendations for candidates to form a government
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) conceded the race to Vance Tuesday night with Vance leading 54% to Ryan’s 46%.
Biden waited nearly a full week to make the call, following the leaders of France and the United Kingdom who preceded him in offering their congratulations.
Now that elections are over, it's safe for Ben-Gvir to be seen together with Netanyahu.
The rightwing bloc has a solid majority.
By Sara Lehmann
Several men in a car accosted three boys from my son’s yeshiva at gunpoint and hurled anti-Semitic epithets at them. It was not the first time guns were brandished at yeshiva boys in that vicinity.
Mansour Abbas exclaimed, “will we allow Smotrich and Ben- Gvir to deport us by ship?”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A columnist in the P.A.'s official newspaper said one goal of influencing Israeli elections is to foment civil unrest.
A car is going through the Arab town’s streets shouting to the residents, “The Jews are flocking to the polls…"
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
By noon, 28.4% of the eligible population voted, the highest percentage in 23 years.
Smotrich is a man of integrity, truth and consistency. That cannot be taken for granted nowadays, after other religious Zionists in politics misled right-wing voters.
I will try to explain the complicated Israeli political process in less than 300 words.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In preparation for an Arab summit in Algiers next month, the heads of 14 factions, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah organization and the Islamist party Hamas, met for two days.
Simply put, while Rep. Zeldin has come forward with common-sense approaches, Gov. Hochul has been missing in action on all of these critical fronts, seemingly determined to avoid angering her leftist-woke base with its catastrophic agenda.
The head of the Central Elections Committee had previously decided to ban Chikli from running for the Knesset.
Israel's national development & socio-political trajectory can be best understood by examining the dynamic progression of our ancient kings.
Rabbi David Fine said, “The Religious Zionist Party is the only party which consistently raises the flag on issues which are important to Israelis from English-speaking countries."
Yair Lapid reportedly had a secret deal in place with MK Michal Shir to ensure that the rotation happened, one way or the other.
2 candidates for the head of the administration and 3 lists for the plenum are competing in the elections.
You might expect that when MK Itamar Ben-Gvir vists Tel Aviv his welcome might be perhaps less than warm or welcoming...
Balad is not likely to pass the electoral threshold.
The first election Campaing video by Bezalel Smotrich for the 2022 elections.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to Israeli law, with few limitations, anyone can register to run for Knesset, promoting any concept.
Religious Zionists won't need to figure out how to split their votes.
Netanyahu wants them to merge their parties to maximize the chances of forming a rightwing coalition.
Lapid didn't say who else would or wouldn't be in his coalition.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Likud’s petition, submitted to the Central Election Committee, stated that “a sovereign state cannot afford the external interference of a foreign and hostile entity in the election process for the Knesset.”
Netanyahu received close to 10,000 phone calls in a half hour.
Ben-Gvir calls for a public ceasefire with Smotrich, as Smotrich's party goes to the polls.
Smotrich would give Ben-Gvir the 2, 5, 7, 9 and 10th spots on the united list.
By D.J. Kolpak
Robinson took the far-Left org JFREJ (Jews For Racial & Economic Justice) to task for pretending to represent mainstream Jewish interests, or even Jewish interests at all,
So far it's Shaked, Hendel and Hauser in positions 1, 2 and 4.
MKs Nir Orbach and Idit Silman will also need to quit the Knesset soon if they are to run on the Likud list.
Some Knesset candidates are pulling out their military backgrounds to cudgel one another.
Itamar can't sleep, until he finds what to count...
Netanyahu has about a week now to try and form a new coalition.
The leaders cited their achievements.
Yair Lapid also spoke and thanked Bennett, saying Bennett “put the country before the personal interest.”
Hamas received 5018 votes against Fatah, which only got 3379 votes.
Pro-Hezbollah parties did not fare as well as they had in the past in Lebanons elections.
Whether or not this vote happens is almost completely in the hands of the Islamic Ra'am party.
Her campaign was endorsed and supported by AIPAC and its new political action committee, which can support candidates directly.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The organization previously endorsed six candidates, bringing its total number of endorsements to 20.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has been a leader in the progressive “Squad” standing against Israel on key votes in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nonetheless, a convincing majority of Virginia's Jews voted Democratic.
Rumor has it that Netanyahu is planning to offer Gantz a very sweet deal.
“The Flatbush Jewish community, our leadership, residents, yeshivah leaders, parents and business owners all agree that, for our community, the No. 1 issue in the election was public safety,” said community leader Chaskel Bennett.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview of Robert Cornegy that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for Brooklyn Borough President.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview of Shaun Donovan that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview with Jo Anne Simon that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for Brooklyn Borough President.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview of Maya Wiley that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview of Kathryn Garcia that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.
There are those that hope Netanyahu will take up the mantle, to break the deadlock in forming a coalition government.
By Alex Traiman
Naftali Bennett had explicitly pledged that he would not sit in any government with Yair Lapid, “not with a rotation and not without a rotation,” because he “is right while Lapid is left.” It is now clear that he was negotiating the terms of a rotation the entire time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group, however, says it recognizes “the challenges involved with attempting to integrate Palestinian factions committed to nonviolence and diplomacy with those, like Hamas, that have frequently engaged in violence and terror.”
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